{"id":4581,"date":"2014-07-31T15:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:36:54","slug":"boko-haram-blamed-for-nigeria-kano-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/boko-haram-blamed-for-nigeria-kano-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram blamed for Nigeria Kano blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria&#8217;s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say.<\/p>\n<p>The female bomber is reported to have blown herself up as students queued to check their names on an admission list.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the government says a 10-year-old girl with a suicide belt has been arrested in a neighbouring state.<\/p>\n<p>Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The college bombing was the fifth attack in Kano since Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-28571037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria&#8217;s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say. The female bomber is reported to have blown herself up as students queued to check their names on an admission list. Meanwhile the government says a 10-year-old girl with a suicide belt has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,355,3323,3322,357,694,3158,3157,3107,257,4687,393,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-college-bombing","tag-female-bomber","tag-islamist","tag-kano","tag-militant","tag-militant-islamist","tag-militant-islamist-group-boko-haram","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}